Islamophobic workplace intimidation figures into the background of another mass shooter conveniently painted as a jihadist. The ongoing intrigue surrounding Omar Mateen and his massacre of 47 patrons of the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida...

Three University of Texas professors asked a U.S. judge on Thursday to give them the option of barring students from bringing guns into their classroom after the state gave some students that right under a law then went into effect this week....

California voters could decide whether to extend the state’s pioneering climate change program beyond 2020 when they go to the polls in two years, an official within Governor Jerry Brown’s administration said on Thursday. Talk of a...

Money to fight the outbreak of the mosquito-borne Zika virus in the United States is running out, US President Barack Obama said Thursday, calling the situation “critical” and urging lawmakers to act. Obama spoke to reporters at the...

A prominent activist in the Black Lives Matter movement, DeRay McKesson, on Thursday sued the chief of the Baton Rouge police department and other officials over the arrests of nearly 200 demonstrators during peaceful protests about police...

While Donald Trump fans back his attacks on Latino and Middle Eastern immigrants, they did not appear to be concerned with the allegations that his wife broke US immigration laws, Buzzfeed reported. “I’m fine with Europeans coming...

The National Institute of Health is lifting a previous moratorium banning scientists from creating animal embryos that have human organs or cells, National Public Radio reports. But now scientists can get federal dollars to create...

Police in Sanford, Florida are investigating an altercation involving George Zimmerman, WFTV-TV reported. Zimmerman, who was acquitted of murder charges after fatally shooting the teen, called authorities saying he was hit in the face while...

A former server from North Carolina sued a restaurant chain over unpaid side work she and other employees were required to perform. Vanessa Chavez filed a federal lawsuit against Hickory Tavern, which she said required her and other workers to...

A U.S. appeals court issued an order on Thursday denying North Carolina’s motion to stay the court’s decision last week striking down the state’s voter ID law. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said staying its ruling now...

Wisconsin Republican Paul Ryan is up for reelection and his campaign to retake his seat in the U.S. House of Representatives has become an unexpected battle ground in what NBC News called a proxy war between the Republican party establishment...

President Barack Obama rebuked Donald Trump on Thursday for complaining that the election could be “rigged” against him. “Of course the elections will not be rigged. What does that mean?” Obama said during a press...

The mayor of Stockton, California, was arrested on Thursday on a felony eavesdropping charge stemming from a strip poker game he is accused of surreptitiously recording at a summer camp he hosts for disadvantaged inner-city youths, prosecutors...

House Speaker Paul Ryan said on Thursday that he saw no point in bringing up the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal for a vote in any “lame duck” session of Congress later this year after November elections, because “we...

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton had a quick response on Thursday when an animal rights demonstration broke out during a campaign rally in Las Vegas. Footage posted by ABC News shows the former secretary of state speaking to...